The Chinese and Opium Under the Republic: Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts

by Baumler, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780791469538
• ISBN10: 0791469530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-04
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Examines China's attempts to control the opium economy in the early twentieth century

Author Biography

Alan Baumler is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Worse than Floods and Wild Beasts: Opium, Politics, and Society in Republican China	p. 1
Establishing a Meaning for Opium	p. 9
The Narrative of Addiction in China and the West	p. 35
The International Campaign against Opium	p. 57
Warloads and Opium	p. 89
Opium, the Nation, and the Revolution	p. 111
Hankou, the Anti-Opium Inspectorate, and Control of the Opium Trade	p. 151
Purifying the People and Defending the State: The Six Year Plan to Eliminate Opium	p. 177
Defining Drugs	p. 195
War, Poppies, and the Completion of the Plan	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 231
Notes	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 294
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